Please click here to download a password-protected PDF of the papers accepted to this gathering. These papers are not for circulation outside of participant group.

We are grateful for the generous sponsorship, support, and participation of the Advanced Research Consortium, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory, Canadiana.org, Centre de recherche interuniversitairesur les humanités numériques, Compute Canada, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Digital Research Centre, Editing Modernism in Canada, eHumanities Group, Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, E-READ, Érudit, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Implementing New Knowledge Environments, Iter, Justice BC, MakerLab in the Humanities, Modernist Versions Project, Public Knowledge Project, Service BC, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and University of Victoria Libraries, among others.

Tentative Schedule
(Updated 15 January 2015; subject to change)

All proceedings to take place in the Nita Lake Lodge ballroom, or the adjacent foyer.

Jean-Marc Mangin (Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences), “Open Access and Scholarly Books.”

John Maxwell (Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, Simon Fraser U), “Beyond Open Access to Open Content.”

Susan Brown (U Guelph; U Alberta; INKE Modelling & Prototyping), John Simpson (U Alberta; INKE Modelling & Prototyping), and members of CWRC and the INKE Research Group, “An Entity by Any Other Name: Linked Open Data as a Basis for a Decentered, Dynamic Scholarly Publishing Ecology.”

Ron Walker, Leslie Weir, and William Wueppelmann (Canadiana), “Linked Metadata and New Discoveries.”

Constance Crompton and Cole Mash (U British Columbia, Okanagan; INKE Modelling & Prototyping), “Playing Well With Others: The Social Edition and Computational Collaboration.”

Scholarly communication practices are rapidly changing, and this time of transition indicates an opportunity to shape the future of scholarly production in open, flexible, and productive ways that serve the needs of many. As professional work becomes increasingly enmeshed with and supported by digital technology, practitioners have begun to explore different venues and modes for sharing knowledge. Recent scholarly communication developments, including open peer review systems and online academic publishing platforms, reflect this transitional period. For instance, in Planned Obsolescence Kathleen Fitzpatrick considers ways of “opening ourselves to the possibility that new modes of publishing might enable, not just more texts, but better texts, not just an evasion of obsolescence, but a new life for scholarship.”

This one and a half day gathering will provoke conversation and mobilize collaboration in and around electronic scholarly production, as well as issues of (open) access, partnership, dissemination, alternative modes and models, and the shift from prototype to production. This action-oriented event is geared toward leaders in various arenas, including academic and non-academic researchers, members of scholarly associations, and open source practitioners and developers. Taking the success of last year’s INKE-hosted gathering in Whistler, “Building Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Publishing,” as our starting point we hope to both formalize connections across fields and simultaneously open up different ways of thinking about the pragmatics and possibilities of electronic scholarly production.

Featured events include:
• Keynote lecture & opening presentations
• Lightning talks, where authors present 5 minute versions of longer papers circulated prior to the gathering, followed by a brief discussion (papers may be conceptual, theoretical, application-oriented, and more)
• Show & Tell session, where presenters do digital demonstrations of their projects and / or prototypes
• Next Steps conversation, to articulate in a structured setting what we will do together in the future
We invite proposals for lightning papers that address these and other issues pertinent to research in the area, OR for relevant prototype or project demonstrations.

Proposals should contain a title, an abstract (of approximately 250 words, plus list of works cited), and the names, affiliations, and website URLs of presenters. Fuller papers will be solicited after proposal acceptance for circulation in advance of the gathering. We are pleased to welcome proposals in all languages of our community; note that the chief working language of past gatherings has been English. Please send proposals on or before October 1st 2014 to Alyssa Arbuckle at alyssaarbuckle [at] gmail [dot] com.

“Sustaining Partnerships to Transform Scholarly Production” is sponsored by the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) research group. Some travel assistance may be available as necessary, pending outcome of a separate application to the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for this event.